Where would you put the word "fuck" in William Carlos Williams's "This is Just to Say"?

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This Is Just To Say Fucking

William Fucking Carlos Fucking Williams - 1883-1963

I have fucking eaten
the plums
that were fucking in
the icebox

and which fucking you
were fucking probably
saving
for breakfast

Fucking forgive me
they fucking were delicious
fucking so sweet
and so cold

Fuck

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All Of the Above wasn’t listed, but was clearly the right choice.

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They’re still putting them in the wrong places…

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Gorgon gets bonus points for it being a haiku (depending on how one meters the word ‘plucked’).

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@cepheus42

Fuck, fucking fucksome fucker’s fuckedly fucked!


Debating whether to add fuck-as-infix in the adverb a la “fuck-fucking-edly” but decided that would be a little too too.

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Sheesh… obviously you put it right after the headline’s question, in the form of “Fuck off.”

I don’t mind the plums fucking, but can they not do it in the icebox?

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Oh… now I know what that is in the crisper drawer…

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But when you’re in it, what else is there?

There should be an option to add this within words, as “dee-fuckin-licious” works rly well for that line.

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W. Fucking C. Williams abides.

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“Fucking” doesn’t fit, really. “Sorry, I’m a fucker for eating the plums,” maybe.

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How about we just leave it out?

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He wasn’t a Canadian…

What is this exercise for anyway? Could one substitute another word like “asshole” or “shitcaked” or “pissed on the plums” to equal effect? This is like a gedankenexperiment for three year olds.

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